An Innocent Story.......!!!!!!!!





Read this in ur spare time








This incident took place when I was in std-1.

I had just moved to clas-1 & I was really very excited.

I felt as if I had grownup. It was a whole new experience for me.

So it started like this.


There was a lady teacher named Jyoti,Jyoti mam.She had the sweetest voice I had ever heard. She always talked in a nice, humble way with a cute smile on he face.
So one day what happened, I missed my lunch box & when in the recess, I searched my whole bag, but couldn’t find it.

Tears rolled down my eyes.

All my classmates were busy finishing up their lunch, but I was sitting on my bench sobbing.

Then suddenly I heard a voice, "Rahul, Why are u crying?"

I turned back & saw Jyoti mam.

I wiped off my tears & told her about my missing lunch box.

She then asked,” Why don’t we together have lunch in my room today?"

I didn’t knew what to say.

She told me to come up with her.

I followed her without saying anything.

She took me to her room. I sat in front of her in the table.

I was really very nervous & found my hands were shacking.

Then she asked me ,"have u washed ur hands?" I lamely said,” No mam."

She pointed towards the basin & said "Go & wash ur hands first”.

But I was unable to reach at the basin, as it was way too high for me.

She saw this & gave a quick smile & said, "wait! Let me wash ur hands".

After that she opened her lunch box.

There was my fav. Alloo ke paranthe. She offered me 2 of those .

In between lunch, we had a lot of chat. I was really surprised & happy .

It was the most wonderful lunch I ever had.

Then I left & got out in the playground, happiest as ever.

Days went by, I was feeling emotionally attached to Jyoti mam.

One day I brought jam-over-bread in my lunch box.

I hurried up to Jyoti mam & told her, "Mam , once u shared ur lunch with me, now its my turn.".I offered her 2 bread slices. She smiled & kissed on my cheeks.

I was standing there stunned.

Then mam asked me” What happened? Finish up ur lunch quickly”.

I felt as if I had no hunger left.
I realized I was blushing. Somehow I finished off my lunch.
She said,” Thank Rahul for sharing ur lunch with me. "

I was on cloud 9.



Few weeks later, we were having our class group photo shoot.
Everyone, including me was too excited as it takes place only once a year.
We were all asked to wear neat clothes & well polished shoes that day.
Girls came wearing bangles & some of them even wore tiny fake necklaces.
We all lined up & moved towards playground where rows of benches were arranged in an order.
We were assigned our respective positions in those benches.
Then came Jyoti mam, wearing a blue saree. She was looking like a princess.
She sat in the middle of us. I was standing 2 benches behind her.
Photographer yelled.” Ready all,Smile please”.
I was hysteric. I said "wait”. All eyes focused on me.
I reached up to Jyoti mam & pleaded "Mam please let me sit besides u,please,please,please."She laughed & said "All right".I felt a sigh of relief.


I was sitting besides Jyoti mam, MY JYOTI MAM.


On 23rd of Oct. i.e. on my birthday, I decided to express my feeling to Jyoti mam.
I finished off distributing toffees in the classrooms.
Then I reached towards Jyoti mam's room.
She was sitting there, alone, reading something.

I asked” May I come in mam?" She looked up & grinned, "Oh birthday boy, come in, come in "I reached out to my pocket & took a Dairy Milk choc. Which I bought specially for her.
She took it & said "Happy birthday Rahul.
So what did u wished today?"
I took a pause & said "I prayed to GOD, that me & u should be married."
She burst into laughter & kissed on my cheeks & said "soo sweet of you.
Of course I will marry u, but first study, eat & grow bit bigger."

I was too happy hearing that she wants to marry me, but first I had to study well.




Finally that session ended; It was summer vacations.
I didn’t wanted these vacations, coz I wont be able to meet Jyoti mam then.
I kept our group class photo below my pillow & before going to sleep ,I use to kiss her pic & say "Good Night Mam."



Somehow those dreadful vacations ended.
By now I had learned to tie my shoe laces of my own & I was too excited to tell this to Jyoti mam.
When I reached school, I saw jyoti mam more beautiful than ever.
I asked her how did she enjoyed her vacations; I told her how much I missed her.


I was happy again



It was a doomsday for me.
I got the news that Jyoti mam is leaving our school & moving to some bigger school.
In the recess I reached her room.
She was looking too excited; & I could not control my emotions.
I asked her, sobbing,” Why are u leaving our school, why are u leaving ME?"
She took out a handkerchief from her purse & wiped off my tears & gently said,”I am not leaving you Rahul. I am just waiting for you to grow up"
she laughed.


I asked again,” But is it necessary to leave ME for this?"

She didn’t said anything. She got up & came back with a red rose in her hand, which she gave to me & said,"Take this rose & give it to the girl you likes most.
If u cant find anyone, then return it back to me when u grow up. "
she grinned again & kissed me."& Don’t cry ok?"
I nodded yes & got out of the room .
I came back home with her rose in my bag.


Next day I couldn’t find Jyoti mam.




In recess, I finished off my lunch & took that rose in my pocket & got out to play.But I was in no mood of playing that day.The rose was lying in my pocket, looking crumpled & dull. I sat on the see-saw lying in one of the corners & took out the rose from my pocket. My eyes were filled with tears but I was not crying."Rahul, is ur name Rahul?”I turned back & saw a girl as sweet as the rose that mam gave me.I said, "Yes"She said, “:Jyoti mam told me to meet u. I am ur new class mate.Jyoti mam told me that we can be good friends. "She smiled & asked again, "what is that in your hand?"I grinned & said, "Ahh its a rose, bit dull though"She asked, "Can I take it?"My heart skipped a beat, that rose was the last thing My Jyoti mam gave to me. How can I give it to someone other than Jyoti mam herself? Then I decided, Jyoti mam didn’t cared for my feeling, then why should I.I grinned & said "Yes! Sure u can take it"She smiled again & said,” Thank You! My name is Priya, let’s play see-saw then."I laughed & said,” Good idea,"I was smiling again.

BY mr.OFFLINE

2 b contd.

Agogo DVD to 3GP Video Converter

Agogo DVD to 3GP Video Converter is a intuitive to use program which convert your DVD movies to 3GP Video Files.

Absolutely essential if u want to carry around whole movies in your mobile phone.

Key Features:

1. Intuitive interface make you free and professional.
2. Build-up enhanced encoder ensure the output movie quality and high speed to finish task.
3. One click profile settings solution and easy customize settings for video size, frame rate, video bitrate(quality), audio bitrate(quality), aspect ratio.
4. Subtitle and Audio Track selectable for each episode.
5. Set the start position and end position for any episodes to convert.( cut movie clip to convert ).
6. Batch convert main movie and any episodes.
7.Automatically Shutdown Computer After Conversion.
8.Normally, the conversion speed is 5 times of the playback speed.
9.Support set the start position and end position of source file to convert.
10.Best quality: the support for the latest industry standards ensures the videos you create with best picture and audio quality..

OS Supported:
Windows 98 / ME / NT / 2000 /XP / 2003

Hardware Requirements:
Intel Pentium II 350MHz
64 MB RAM
DVD- Writer

Just follow the instructions in the nfo file

Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/32391518/ADVD.to.3GP.VC.v5.74.rar
Pass: orkutgenie

Have fun!!!


Aizen

Advanced mp3 Converter

Advanced MP3 Converter converts audio formats such as MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, APE, MPC, CUE, AAC, MP4, M4A, TTA, AC3, FLAC, OptimFROG, Speex, WavPack, ALAC etc from one format to another. including resampling. Audio format conversion is performed directly without any temporary files,

It supports editing MP3 id3 v1 , MP3 id3 v2, APE, MP4, WMA tag also supported. Automatic volume normalization when converting, It best for burning high quality CD's.

Main Features


1.Fast Conversion Speed:Audio format conversion is performed directly without any temporary files, and thus enables high converting speed and economy of hard disk resource.ALAC support: Support Apple Lossless Audio codec.
2.Best Audio Codecs Support
Advanced Mp3 Converter uses most modern and fast audio codecs, it internally supports WMA 9 format: WMA 9 with constant bitrate, quality based WMA 9 format with variable bitrate, two-pass bitrate based WMA 9 format with variable bitrate and WMA 9 Lossless format, which allows you to store your digital audio with best qualty. For MP3 encoding it uses fast LAME encoder 3.93, for OGG encoding it uses latest Vorbis SDK updates.for APE encoding it use lasted version 3.99.
3.Supporting Batch Conversion:
You can convert many files in a batch regardless of their source formats and target formats.
4.Supporting Drag & Drop:
Advanced Mp3 Converter supports dragging and dropping files from the Explorer or File Manager into an open session of Advanced Mp3 Converter. Files may be selected from the File Manager (multiple files may be selected) and dragged into the Advanced Mp3 Converter window.
5.Automatic volume normalization when converting
You can normalize audio files to save level when converting.
6.Automatic resampling When Converting
support 8/16 bit, Mono/Stereo, frequency: 1..48000hz
7.ID3 Tag v2 Support
Program supports ID3 Tag v2, you can easily transfer all most useful tag fields from one format to another, edit these fields in audio files
8.All 32-bit Windows system compatiable
It works on Windows 95/98/NT/2K/ME/XP.
9.Winamp playlists support
Application allows you to create (or append to) Winamp play lists(*.pls,*.m3u).
10.Full Playback function supported
Build-in mini and pretty player, Equalizer also supported.

Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/32386551/AMP3C.v3.00.rar
pass: orkutgenie

Note: Serial in nfo file.


Aizen

Mr. Fastfingers - Shred show

Once in a while you always bump into one of those sites where you can pass your time forever just hanging around in it. Most probably forwarded to you by a friend as an email.

As an big time metal fan and a guitarist foremost I really appreciated the effort that went into the making of this site. Undoubtedly one of the best flash sites in web world. Whoever is playing in those tracks sounds like Steve Vai and i wouldn't be surprised if he actually is.

http://www.guitarshredshow.com/main.html

The guitar "guru" in this site is the one involved in this seemingly fairy tale. He shows of his style, his guitar and his musicianship. Shred your way out of trouble and kill off the bad guy in the small but fun story mode.

Njoy!


Aizen

Computer Viruses: The Underlying Truth

What is a computer virus

As soon we think of the word "virus" we think of a deadly wriggling creature, which is out to destroy everything. So first thing first, a computer virus is NOT a living thing!! In computer terminology though "virus" is nothing but a piece of code ( 'a computer program' in simple terms ) which is intentionally programmed to do some mischief! All Viruses are self-replicating in nature, by making a copy of itself and copying it to other media it makes sure it affects a large number of it target. Self-replication is the property that distinguishes a virus program from other types of programs.

Virus isn't the only nasty thing waiting to harm you, there are other types of malicious programs wandering in the cyber-space waiting to attack. Major types of these programs are

1) Trojan Horses : These are programs that otherwise seem to be normal, non-harmful software, but internally they hide their dirty piece of code, which does bad things to the user, which uses it. A Trojan may be a carrier of a virus! They got their name from the famous Trojan horse legend.

2) Worms : These programs do nothing but make copies of their own, spreading themselves over computer networks if the computer on which they reside is connected to a network. They increase in number very rapidly thus eating up the entire disk-space, slowing down the system and eating up into to valuable computer resources. They also slow down computer networks, as the network gets clogged up carrying these worms to other hosts!! A property that distinguishes a virus from a worm is that viruses not only make copies of themselves, they also attach their code to other normal programs, which become the carrier of these viruses. Viruses also do other bad things like destroying your hard-disk etc. whereas a worm only makes copies of itself. Also viruses 'normally' do not replicate as fast as worms do. Worms's sole intention is to eat up all the various computer resources and storage-space.

3) Bomb : These are as bad as a virus, but these programs do not replicate as viruses and worms do. Bombs are planted on a computer system and when some special event occurs, it triggers the bomb and it explodes. In plain English terms these programs do their 'nasty-work' when a specific event occurs. For example a bomb hidden inside a game might erase all the contents of your 'C:' drive ( for Unix/Linux may be your 'home' directory! ) after the game has been run for 5 times.

We will limit our discussion only to viruses. As a reminder a 'virus' can be differentiated from it's other counterparts by the property of 'replication' it exhibits.

A virus can be simply irritating as the famous cascade virus, which made the characters on the screen fall-down at random! Or they can be as deadly as some variants of Jerusalem, which erase every program run on Friday the 13th. So how did these viruses came into being?

How is a virus born
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Viruses do not come from nowhere, they need to be created and the creators are non other than the Homo-sapiens. Some human beings out of frustration, for taking revenge, just for fun or just for the heck of it, write viruses. One thing commendable about them is that they have real expertise in computers. They are very good at programming (mostly in more than one languages) and know the internal tid-bits and loopholes of the system.

Virus writers aren't people who have an image or personality of an underworld don. A virus writer can be a person like the best-student in your class with spectacles always lost in his books or a person like the best cricket player in your college always with a bat in his hand, never to be seen in the class. The point is you cannot make out a person from his appearance whether he was the one behind the last week's headlines about a virus attack. And one thing more, age does not matter when it comes to writing viruses. An 80 years old can write a virus too, provided he has the expertise (and health ).

A brief History
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First computer viruses were found on the Macintosh's Apple-II computer series, in the late 1981. No record of who made it is present as yet! In early 1980s, Fred Cohen did extensive theoretical research, as well as setting up and performing numerous practical experiments, regarding viral type programs. His dissertation was presented in 1986 as part of the requirements for a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California.

Dr. Cohen's definition of a computer virus as "a program that can 'infect' other programs by modifying them to include a version of itself" is generally accepted as a standard. On occasion it presents problems with the acceptance of, say, boot sector viral programs and entities such as the Internet/UNIX/Morris worm. However, his work did experimentally demonstrate and theoretically prove many vital issues.

The fame of being the first DOS based virus goes to '(c) Brain', it is said to have been developed by two Pakistani Brothers, from the text that had the name and address of these two brothers. This is generally accepted but it may not be the case as replacing a text string in an executable file is not difficult! (c) Brain is a boot-sectors virus. It is probably the first very successful virus! Successful in the terms that it got to spread very widely.

As more and more viruses came into existence, the wannabe virus writers used the existing ones as template and created new increasing the already growing number exponentially. Early viruses were limited to Boot-sectors and executable files. But with the invention of various scripting languages now-a-days the scenario is changing rapidly with the virus writers exploring new methods and new loopholes in the system.

The Present Scenario
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Earlier a program was only able to infect an executable file, it may delete data files but infecting a data file won't serve any purpose. As data files are not executed a virus won't get activated if an infected data file is used! But now a days many popular software encompass a powerful scripting language making it possible for virus writers to infect even data files which are used by programs that support a scripting language. A scripting language is not a full-fledged computer language, it was invented to include small programs in data files(not always), that would do long and repetitive tasks. An example is Microsoft's Word. It supports a scripting language (a subset of Visual Basic), you can use it, for example, to make portion of text superscript every time you press a specific key-combination. For this you just need to write a small script and attach it to that key-combination and it will run every time you that key-combination.

Earlier scripting languages had limited capabilities and command set, but as demand and necessities grew they become as powerful as any other programming language. Virus writers used this power to their advantage and created viruses that could infect even a data file. For example you can have a script (also called as a macro in MS-Word) in your Word document which runs every time you open that document. Suppose a virus replaces this macro, then whenever you'll open this infected file, the virus code will be executed! The 'data-file', macro or a scripting file virus was MS-Word Concept virus. Other programs like MS-Excel, Internet Browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla etc), certain email clients (like MS-Outlook express etc) also have scripting language support and hence are vulnerable to a virus attack.

Now that I have filled you up with fear and left all wondering how to save yourself from these viruses ready to attack you system, let's get to the ground reality. As a fact, most data-loss and computer problems are still not caused by viruses, instead the major factor for all these problems still remains to be hardware problems, software problems and mistakes caused by humans. Viruses account only for a very little percentage of all the data-loss and computer problems. But if you are careless and have little knowledge about your computer system, it is very likely that you are included in that 'little percentage'. Remember it's always best to take precautions, than to lament later!!

How computer viruses DO NOT spread
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First let us discuss how computer viruses do not spread, as most people have misconceptions about how a virus spreads, which leads to unnecessary panic.

* A virus does not spread by a simple insertion of a floppy disk into the drive

* CD-ROMs (Compact Disc - Read only memory) cannot be infected by viruses as they are read-only media and can be written over only-once. Even though writable CD-ROM are present in the market, including the code to write on such CD's will make the virus very big and also takes too much time to write on writable CD-ROMs.

* Viruses cannot be spread by opening data files (Provided the data-file does not has any scripts attached AND most importantly the program being used to view that file should not support the scripting language used in that data-file. For example you can open an infected MS-Word document in Microsoft's Notepad without any risk)

* Just by connecting to the internet you cannot get a virus

* By doing a directory listing (DIR) on an infected media won't make your system infected

* Your system won't get infected even if you open the infected executable files in some text editor.

* Viewing e-mails that have virus as attachment won't get your system to be infected, until you open the attachment. (some e-mail clients like Outlook Express that automatically open the attachment do not follow this rule, though Microsoft has come up with improved versions, it always best to explore your e-mail clients configurations options and switch of scripting languages and auto-open of attachment features.) Almost all web-based e-mail providers won't open your e-mail attachments automatically (like Indiatimes, Yahoo!, RediffMail etc.)

* Viewing web-pages do not risk you to virus infection!

* Viewing Pictures, images and/or listening to music on the net on your system won't risk your system to virus attack, as all these are data files and luckily do not have any scripting language feature (as yet).

* You cannot get infected by erroneous use of your computer or software. Keyboard typing errors or playing with your BIOS won't infect you though it might affect you in some other harmful manner if you don't know what you are doing! ;)

I guess I've cleared enough misconceptions about how computer viruses do not spread. Now let's see how much risk you run of getting an infection!

How vulnerable are you to virus attack
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Well if we go by the theory of probability then everyone runs the risk of getting a virus to some extent. Let's explore how high is the probability in your case.

Viruses do not spread on their own they need some kind of human intervention. You need to execute the virus infected program or open a document infected by a scripting language virus a program that is capable of executing those virus scripts. Unless any or one of these thing occurs, you cannot get infected. Some viruses are infect the boot-sector of a floppy disk (or a hard-disk), if you boot from such a floppy then also you can get infected by a virus. One VERY important point to note here is that, even though a floppy is not bootable but is infected and you try to boot from it then you will get infected. This happens because all floppy disks contain a small portion of storage space know as boot-sector. This small sector of memory contains the boot-image which is loaded by the system and executed if you try to boot from a floppy. So even-though the system file might not be present on a floppy, it can have a virus code in this boot-sector.

Considering the above mentioned points you run the risk of getting infected

1) If you use pirated software (Which have a high probability of being infected)
2) Run programs obtained from unauthorized source
3) Open (and execute) e-mail attachments obtained from unknown sources
4) Use buggy e-mail clients that automatically open e-mail attachments
5) Execute software obtained via Online Chat
6) Use World Wide Web browsers that do not have adequate security measures as to how much control a script embedded in a web-page should have on your system.
7) If you are connected to a Network (like LAN etc) and run every XYZ program you come across on the network (provided you have the permission to run those programs)

The bottom line is the virus needs to be activated (executed) at least once before it can affect your system and spread further. This activation occurs by all the ways mentioned above.

A Cell Phone virus? thankfully not as yet!
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Rumors about a cell phone virus are doing rounds across the globe despite regular denial of such a thing as a cell phone virus by various computer experts and cell phone vendors. The simple fact why a cell phone cannot get a virus is that it still cannot execute any external piece of software or program. Now questions may arise in the readers mind that why such a thing is not possible? A cell phone has a network same as the Internet, it even has a microprocessor as in your computer. Today's cell phones can even connect to the internet and allow you to send e-mail, view WebPages etc. Then what is the fact that makes cell phones immune to viruses?

As I mentioned earlier, a virus needs to have it's code i.e. instructions executed for it to become activated also it must have some permanent storage place where it can keep itself stored for further activation. In case of cell phones thought they have memory it is never used for storing of any executable programs, also cell-phones never execute the data they receive and send. The microprocessor only executes the software hard-wired on to the ROM (read only memory) chips inside the cell-phone.

Since technology like WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) now enable computers to communicate with the cell-phones, a virus was reported that used this technology to send SMS (Short messaging service) messages to random cell phone numbers. Out here, note that the computer system and not the cell-phone is infected by the virus. Till we have cell-phones that can store and execute external piece of code, a cell phone virus can be the theme of sci-fi Hollywood Movies!

Few simple steps to be safe from viruses
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Now on to some very simple steps to save you from a virus attack. One thing to note here is that there is no such thing as fool-proof. As the Moores Law of computer states "If anything can go wrong it Will" ( Now don't start believing it okay .. ;) )

But the fact is, with every increasing types of viruses and the temptation to run the game program e-mailed by your Online-Chat buddy makes it really difficult to be completely safe from virus attacks. But nonetheless it the risk can be brought down if we follow the following simple steps

1) Never boot from an unknown floppy.

2) Change your boot sequence to 'C' drive first from the BIOS ( you can get into BIOS settings by pressing the del key or F1 key one some systems. Look at your BIOS manual if the key combination is different) This way you will be saved by accidental boot from a floppy that you left after copying the text files from it!!

3) Do not open (execute) e-mail attachments you receive from unknown persons or sources.

4) Do not download and run programs from Web Sites that you do not trust ( or programs that you do not trust)

5) If you see any strange looking executable file on your system do not execute it (I know it is
very tempting specially for people like me who like to know what that piece of code does that's taking up valuable space on my hard-disk)

6) Don't use pirated software (Though not all but chances are high that it may be infected)

7) Turn of scripting support unless you really require it!

8) Disable ActiveX support in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser, it causes more problem than fun!

9) Control the scripting features in your Web Browser, like turning off unnecessary scripting language features.

10) Use an anti-virus Software AND update it regularly.

Look I've mentioned the anti-virus option at the end, because they simply cannot identify the 50,000+ viruses present a new virus being created everyday! You need to update them regularly to make them effective and as a phrase goes "Prevention is better than cure" it's better to prevent any virus being able to infect your system in the first place it self by following the first 9 rules. I am not discouraging you from using a Anti-Virus software, it's good to use it and can save you from already known viruses. But I don't have it installed on my system as I consider it as a waste of my computer resources after all "If anything can go wrong it Will" ;)

Also there is no need to fear by the figure 50,000+. Only very few viruses have been reported to have spread very vast. Also most of them are a slight variation of the other, at times raising debates whether the new virus is really a new virus!!

Epilogue
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Now to present the final picture in front of you. As I've mentioned viruses are not the only program present in this cyber world, out to destroy you valuable data! There are others as well like Trojan Horse's and Bomb's. Also surveys and statistics reveal that major data-loss and computer problems are caused because of Hardware, software or wrong use of The combination of these by the Human beings! Virus share only a small percentage of Data-loss problems and other computer problems!

Though this might make one reluctant to follow safety measures but would you not take precautions in real life just because not every body dies of diseases? You probably would, right!! So the same rule applies to the virtual-world as well. It is always better to follow the precautions and implement the safety-measures to save yourself from not only computer viruses but other similar threats as well.

Every technology can be used in a bad and a good way. And as technology advances and as Virus writers come up with new ideas and find out new loop holes in the latest technology, the number of computer viruses would only go up. One cannot expect viruses to be eradicated entirely ever! Today most of the viruses are written for the DOS and Microsoft's Windows environment, because majority of people use these platform. But as people will shift more to other various platforms viruses will start surfacing for those platforms as well because people using their excellent brains for destructive purpose cannot be expected to go down. As I heard in some movie "If God Exists then Evil does as well".

Increasing cases of unemployment and frustrations among the younger generations in yet another cause of increase in virus writers. A study revealed that majority of Virus programmers are teenagers or people in their early twenties. Well The scope of my article does not cover ethical view points about virus writing or virus writers so I would leave it onto the user to think about it! .. My sole intention in writing this article was to remove the common misconceptions about computer viruses which I hope I was able to remove. If you still have questions and/or queries, please do contact me it'll be my pleasure if I can help you in anyway.

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EINSTEIN aka Jerry mouse....
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